For Narnia!

High King Peter became immersed in his pride and honor when he first returned to Narnia. He met with Prince Caspian, gathered an army and drove them into battle. He did not wait for Aslan. Simple and pure, Lucy reminded him of what he should be fighting for. "For Narnia!" he cried, as he stormed the Telmarine city. Most of those with him died in the battle that night. He had been fighting for his honor and for the survival of Narnia, both good things, but the battle of his heart was not honorable because his focus was not on the true King, Aslan.
When Peter realized his failure and focused his heart on a greater purpose, he gathered the army to fight a second time. First, he risked his life for the Narnians by fighting the evil king alone. Then, when his army rode against thier enemy, his battle cry changed. "For Aslan!" he cried. A great change of heart for Peter accompanied the Narnians victory. He was no longer fighting for a cause, which can always become selfish, "my cause." Peter was fighting for a person, The person of Aslan. Only when we fight for a Person can our fight become true, noble, and righteous. It is then that the cause is no longer ours. We can hold no claim on the true King, but fight for Him because of His claim on us.

Do we really struggle alone?

I just want us all to be who God has created us to be. Why does it seem so hard to express His Spirit who is within us, to love our lives as He has created us to, to love Him? We are all subject to fear of man if we let it overcome us, but there is so much freedom to know that when it really comes down to it, everyone struggles with the same things. We all need to feel loved, attractive, smart, like a whole person. Why is it that we feel as if we are incomplete? Perhaps it's because we are....because the whole of creation groans and yearns for the completion that will come when Jesus returns. We forget that creation groans with us, in fact, we think we are groaning alone, isolated. We become deceived to think that we are the only one who feels lost in a sea of people who have it all figured out. The truth is that everyone is very good at pretending that they are ok, but each person it that sea thinks they are struggling and everyone else is ok. We need to learn to let go of this...I think we need to learn to see the world through His eyes.

If we only saw ourselves the way He sees us, we would know that we are not only loved. We are treasured! Christ loves us as His bride, and He yearns to be with us all the time. I just want to encourage you today that if you feel like no one realy likes to be around you or really understands you, Jesus is excited to be with you. You should go spend some time with Him :)